Summary:
In Charles Frazier's book Cold Mountain, those in power start the war, and send the poor off to fight it. This essay discusses this theme as it relates to real-life wars, including the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan.
Rich man's war but a poor man's fight? In the book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier shows that this statement is true. In any war as one may see it, it's always a rich man's war but a poor man's fight. How is this so?
In the book, Inman,who was brought up in a poor family and isn't rich,fights with people who are rich. This is that usually the rich man starts the war and the poor man finishes the war; meaning that the rich man has lost and the poor man has lost the war. This can be related to a recent event not to long ago in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan not too long ago the Soviet Union, as they were at the time, had fought with Afghanistan. Afghanistan was Inman, poor and not as educated, and the Soviet Union was the rich man. The Soviet Union came to Afghanistan and started the war, so it's their war. The war was the poor man's, Afghanistan's, fight. For that reason in both examples, in the book and in events in the past the poor man usually wins the war, hence the saying that it is their fight.
This statement is also true not only war but worldly things. In the world there is a lot of rich people that are arrogant and decide to discriminate and only care for only the rich and not the poor. In this example the "war" against discrimination is fought and has not been won yet but one day will. In the book Inman is looked down upon along with all the other poor people and this is not right so they have to fight against that. So once again it's the rich man's war but the poor man's fight.
This can also be taken as in what big and powerful nations like America and Britain do. In the past both countries have had wars against poor nations and then it turned out to be the poor man's, poor nations, fight against the rich man. This has for the most part also been positive. In the book the rich "nation" is what I think, North and the poor "nation" the south.
The statement "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" is very true in this book in life. As one may see there are many reasons for this statement and only a few were listed in this essay.
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